{"id":106705,"date":"2026-02-06T05:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/106705\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T05:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:05:06","slug":"michigan-man-who-drove-700-miles-to-set-bensalem-fire-sentenced-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/106705\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan man who drove 700 miles to set Bensalem fire sentenced to prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Michigan man who drove across the country to set <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/michigan-man-charged-attempted-homicide-arson-allegedly-driving-more-700-miles-set-pennsylvania-house-fire\/15921522\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:fire to a family&#039;s home in Bensalem;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">fire to a family&#8217;s home in Bensalem <\/a>will spend the next 20 to 40 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Thursday, Harrison Jones pleaded no contest to six counts of attempted murder and two counts of animal cruelty for the killing of the family&#8217;s two dogs in the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/michigan-man-charged-attempted-homicide-arson-allegedly-driving-more-700-miles-set-pennsylvania-house-fire\/15921522\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Michigan man allegedly drove over 700 miles to Bensalem Twp., Pa., with &#039;murderous intentions&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Michigan man allegedly drove over 700 miles to Bensalem Twp., Pa., with &#8216;murderous intentions&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bucks County prosecutors said Jones drove more than 700 miles to set fire to the home on the 5200 block of Merganser Way last February.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Six people were injured in the blaze, including three who had to jump from an upstairs window to escape the flames. All the victims suffered minor burns and smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nearby surveillance cameras were able to track the suspect&#8217;s movements before and after the flames were ignited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jones is the former boyfriend of a woman who was in a new relationship with someone who lived at the home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Michigan man who drove across the country to set fire to a family&#8217;s home in Bensalem will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194,51387,51388],"class_list":["post-106705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township","tag-harrison-jones","tag-murderous-intentions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}